AT Kabul: Just two days after a gunman killed 11 people at a Los Angeles-area dance studio, seven more victims were shot dead in an agricultural area near San Francisco, as California suffered one of its bloodiest spates of mass gun violence in decades. Saturday night’s shooting in the predominantly …
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AT News Kabul: United Nations General Secretary Antonio Guterres on the occasion of Education Day on Tuesday said, “Now is the time to end all discriminatory laws and practices that hinder access to education.” He added that “I call on the Taliban to reverse the outrageous and self-defeating ban on …
Read More »AT Kabul: The UN Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Martin Griffiths said in a meeting with the Taliban authorities that they will provide 4.6 billion dollars’ worth of aid to Afghanistan in 2023. Mr. Griffiths said that the purpose of our trip to Afghanistan is to focus on humanitarian activities so …
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AT News Kabul: Power Company Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat (DABS) and Turkmenenergo have signed an additional agreement to extend contracts for electricity supplies from Turkmenistan to Afghanistan for 2023, the Afghan company reported. The document was signed in the Turkmen capital of Ashgabat by DABS CEO Mula Muhammad Hanif Hamza …
Read More »AT Kabul: The current situation in Ukraine shows that the conflict between Russia and the West can no longer be defined as a “hybrid war” but is instead approaching being a real one, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Monday. Speaking at a press conference following a meeting with …
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AT Kabul: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) in Afghanistan announced that they have provided humanitarian aid to 565,700 people during this winter. According OCHA they are delivering vital winter support to vulnerable Afghan families including blankets, heating, shelter repair & cash for rent. Previously OCHA …
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AT Kabul: Abdul Jabbar Safi, the head of the Afghan Industrialists Association, says that more than 1200 industrial companies in the capital, south and east of the country have stopped operating due to the lack of electricity and thousands of people have lost their jobs in recent weeks. With the …
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AT News Kabul: The local officials in Balkh province says that the police station in Dehdadi district is burnt down due to electrical failure and caused damages worth about one million Afghanis. According to Balkh province police department the incident happened at 5:30 pm on Saturday, and the three-story building …
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AT News Kabul: Russia will participate in TAPI transnational gas pipeline project if receives a proposal from partner countries, says President Vladimir Putin’s special representative for Afghanistan Pajhwok news reported. The Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India gas pipeline will transport up to 33 billion cubic meters of gas per year through a steel pipeline …
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AT News Kabul: Taliban authorities in Afghanistan have arrested five men, including two Chinese nationals, for allegedly trying to smuggle an estimated 1,000 metric tons of lithium-bearing rocks out of the country. The arrests and the seizure of the rocks were made in the eastern Afghan border city of Jalalabad. …
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